Love, Money and Old Age Support: Does Parental Matchmaking Matter?

Parental involvement in matchmaking may distort the choice of spouse because parents are willing to substitute love for market and household production, which are more sharable between parents and their children. This paper finds supportive evidence in a survey of Chinese couples. In both rural and...

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Main Authors: HUANG, Fali, JIN, Ginger Zhe, XU, Lixin Colin
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spelling sg-smu-ink.soe_research-27212019-05-20T14:14:23Z Love, Money and Old Age Support: Does Parental Matchmaking Matter? HUANG, Fali JIN, Ginger Zhe XU, Lixin Colin Parental involvement in matchmaking may distort the choice of spouse because parents are willing to substitute love for market and household production, which are more sharable between parents and their children. This paper finds supportive evidence in a survey of Chinese couples. In both rural and urban areas, parent matchmaking is associated with less marital harmony between the couple, more submissive wives, and a stronger belief in old age support for the son. In contrast, its association with couple income differs by rural and urban regions, perhaps because of differences in earning opportunities and in the enforcement of the one-child policy. Moreover, parent matchmaking is associated with more children for the couple and lower schooling for wives only in rural areas. Thus, in places with a stronger need for old age support, parents tend to be involved in matchmaking and use it to select submissive daughters-in-law to ensure old age support. The results render support to Becker, Murphy and Spenckuch (2015), who imply that parents would meddle with children's preferences to ensure their commitment to providing old age support. 2015-02-01T08:00:00Z text application/pdf https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soe_research/1722 info:doi/10.1596/1813-9450-7188 https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soe_research/article/2721/viewcontent/WPS7188.pdf http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Research Collection School Of Economics eng Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University Parental matchmaking household production old age support parental welfare social network Behavioral Economics Family, Life Course, and Society
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topic Parental matchmaking
household production
old age support
parental welfare
social network
Behavioral Economics
Family, Life Course, and Society
spellingShingle Parental matchmaking
household production
old age support
parental welfare
social network
Behavioral Economics
Family, Life Course, and Society
HUANG, Fali
JIN, Ginger Zhe
XU, Lixin Colin
Love, Money and Old Age Support: Does Parental Matchmaking Matter?
description Parental involvement in matchmaking may distort the choice of spouse because parents are willing to substitute love for market and household production, which are more sharable between parents and their children. This paper finds supportive evidence in a survey of Chinese couples. In both rural and urban areas, parent matchmaking is associated with less marital harmony between the couple, more submissive wives, and a stronger belief in old age support for the son. In contrast, its association with couple income differs by rural and urban regions, perhaps because of differences in earning opportunities and in the enforcement of the one-child policy. Moreover, parent matchmaking is associated with more children for the couple and lower schooling for wives only in rural areas. Thus, in places with a stronger need for old age support, parents tend to be involved in matchmaking and use it to select submissive daughters-in-law to ensure old age support. The results render support to Becker, Murphy and Spenckuch (2015), who imply that parents would meddle with children's preferences to ensure their commitment to providing old age support.
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author HUANG, Fali
JIN, Ginger Zhe
XU, Lixin Colin
author_facet HUANG, Fali
JIN, Ginger Zhe
XU, Lixin Colin
author_sort HUANG, Fali
title Love, Money and Old Age Support: Does Parental Matchmaking Matter?
title_short Love, Money and Old Age Support: Does Parental Matchmaking Matter?
title_full Love, Money and Old Age Support: Does Parental Matchmaking Matter?
title_fullStr Love, Money and Old Age Support: Does Parental Matchmaking Matter?
title_full_unstemmed Love, Money and Old Age Support: Does Parental Matchmaking Matter?
title_sort love, money and old age support: does parental matchmaking matter?
publisher Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
publishDate 2015
url https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soe_research/1722
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soe_research/article/2721/viewcontent/WPS7188.pdf
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